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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 am

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Darkness Visible

In creation myths of the world, there is always a time of darkness before the birth of the human race and in the darkness undifferentiated unit where everything is God and all is one. There are no humans, as creatures of God, or rather, certain aspects of God, waiting to be born - whether a unified consciousness can have in all respects.

And then something happens. God is lonely and wants a partner a lover, or become curious about their skills and potential as a god. With you know and what you could, God must do two things: they must separation of at least one other way you can look at himself and knows what it means to be God. And so you can see what has become the god of darkness must create light.

God said, Let there be light "and there was light ... Genesis I

Then he realized that I am Indeed this creation, because I have paid me ... Upanishads

And it is that the illumination of God comes from the separation and the arrival opposing parties conflicting with each other. The universal consciousness that everyone knew that you convert a split into several - a chaos of fragments, a world unknown a partitioned drive.

This notion of separation and destiny of man within it are in the mythology in the world, whose stories tell of distance and the ambiguity of God (the first original consciousness) of man (that God became).

The Greeks, for example, human regarded as the plaything of the gods, who were numerous and often at war with itself, with humanity a little problem and negligible. In mythology Christian, we have a God that is not available to us and gives us angels, archangels, fallen angels, and even to keep us company in place.

"We come to God in bits, dismembered. I do not know if the bits can be made to adapt to the way used to, "says Michael Begg, an Irish philosopher. His prayer was simple: "We ask God to re-member. "But for this we must first remind ourselves back to the primordial darkness and experience a world without forms.

Reconnecting
The man was looking reconnecting with the infinite and a sense of life completion of the separation. Very often, if severe, this research will be conducted in the dark - a type of physical rather than metaphysical "dark night of the soul," as Carl Jung defined.

Recognizing Primary Union was present on the first black, sages and mystics have always used the darkness as a vehicle to return a state of happiness and understanding. This return to the peace and tranquility enabling them to break with the concerns and anxieties of life on earth with all their social problems identified and the conditioning of the outside world, so they may, to some extent to recreate a relationship with a conscience undifferentiated where everything is, yet.

In the Shinto tradition of Japan, for example, there is a discipline known as Komori - Insulation - implemented in the darkness of a cave, a temple, shrine, or even a room in the house of one, which is specially prepared and purified so he can bring the gift of power and lighting. Japanese texts mention frequent trips to places like these or in cabins without windows, known as Komoro, which can be found in several sacred mountains where ascetics perform their dark retreats.

The practice to spend long periods of time inside the caves are also in the remote peninsula of Land's End in Cornwall, where communities of the Iron Age has felt obliged to build underpasses, known fogou, a word which is translated by the Cornish as "cavities groundwater and may be derived from Ogo, which means cave. These usually consist of a long corridor with walls built of horizontal courses granite rough stones, about 40-50 feet long, six feet high and five or six feet wide, built on a curve deliberately, and walked through a door under restrictive, so that the insider must submit to the darkness at the entrance.

Across the world, the tribe Dagara Burkina Faso, the darkness is also sacred. In addition, in common with other ancient tribes, is forbidden even to light the dark, as light is known to scare the spirits away.

When Malidoma few - who was born to a tribe, but kidnapped and raised in Dagara Jesuit mission - 15 years later, he returned to his tribe discovered that nobody in the village want all the light, and that villagers are expected to operate in the dark. "They gave me the light because he had lost the ability to face the darkness," he writes, but "whenever the people saw the timid light of shea butter lamp in my room away from him as if noted the presence of someone who plays with elements of the cosmos. No young Never sit next to me in the night "

Somewhere in all of us, the darkness has the answers to our being and our destiny - but without all we need do is close our eyes to reconnect with our source.

SACRED EXPERIENCE THE DARKNESS
To get an idea of what the dark May have for you, you may care to try the following exercises. They are from my book Darkness Visible: Awakening Spiritual Meditation Light in the dark, exploring the use of darkness in the world as a means of spiritual enrichment.

Close your eyes ...
The first step in the dark only for work experience of darkness, but instead actively passive. We are all consumers of darkness and flashes when he lay down to sleep, after all, but most of us think these things disruption of normal life to do things in the world - if we think of them all.

To become a traveler in the dark, spending time with eyes closed as if in meditation or simply being aware of thoughts, images, and other relevant information to the surface, which may never have seen before because his attention was so good in the "outside world".

It is recommended to start small - no more than 15 minutes at a time - but you can create longer periods of one hour or more. So if you feel comfortable with the darkness, try to move, eat or dance in the dark. How these activities feel taken for granted now that you use other senses to guide you?

Play God ...
The world's religious texts tell us that there was a time before separation, as we all knew that the spirit of God, because we were part of this mind. Eyes closed, which allows an image or a feeling of what this God-like primitive state was when he was part of this energy conscious and undifferentiated. Feel how it will be one with the soul of the community. Drift with him for a while.

At some point, decided to let this energy unborn and life experience as yourself, a separate form of the whole. What was your purpose for doing so? What you have here to explore? When you consider your life today, has been used for that purpose or, if not, what remains to be done?

Merciful God ...
In my healing practice customers often seek help because of some Great Schism or Division in your life. They feel alienated, lost, or someone which could be as a parent or partner, but often more existential separation: the customer feel alone.

This sentiment is valid. Since, he fell into disgrace and was expelled from Eden that we are all alone. The first person to forgive, then God - or, if preferred, the essence of life itself - have you visited in this way.

Close your eyes and leave an image of what appears to consider God or the life of being and their relationship with him. Talking to this being, to express their sincere sorrow and anger and fear and joy, so he has to say about the situation is in the abandonment and feel.

And then change places. Become a God or life itself and back upon itself. So, in this perspective, answer their own objections. God why things are. Continue this dialogue, the scene change when necessary to reach an understanding and arrangements for the future.

When you're ready to forgive, step back on this picture and sees and God face to face as separate beings, and then allow them to walk towards each other, so that these two beings merge and become the image of a new God-self. Breathe in the power this union and see a light filled his heart.

Open your eyes. How the world today?

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Darkness Visible: Awakening Spiritual Light through Darkness Meditation is available in bookstores or at www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk.

Ross Heaven VisibleTM Darkness also runs retreats in the UK and abroad. For more information on these, http://www.thefourgates.com/darknessvisible.html visit, where you'll also find more information about the author and future books and workshops.

About the Author

Ross Heaven is a therapist, workshop leader, and the author of several books on shamanism and healing, including Darkness Visible, the best-selling Plant Spirit Shamanism, and Love’s Simple Truths. His website is http://www.thefourgates.com where you can also read how to join his sacred journeys to the shamans and healers of the Amazon.

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